Our cruise ship captain Jamie N., and Her first mate Maritza L., are borderline obsessed with Cakewrecks.com! That's why we decided to have an office wide cake wrecks competition! There were 7 awesome entries, and they all incorporated a bit of fun and weirdness into their recipes.

There were 3 winning categories:

As much fun as the Zoktoberfest was, the event that really took the cake (pun intended) was our German Cake Bake off. That's right. Four brave cake lovin' Zapponians spent a few outside work hours baking their hearts out in order to WOW our judge's taste buds. The best part about today's bake off was that no two German Chocolate Cakes were alike.

Out of our four contestants: Ryan Q., Amber W., Arcelia L. and Rowena D., only two walked away with a winning title, but no hurt egos here because they all got Zollars for effort.

Thanks to our wonderful Judges, Clarissa G., Rob R., and Dr. Vik, each cake was carefully examined and judged fairly according to best taste and most creative.

And the Grand Prize for Best Taste and Presentation and overall WOW went to Ryan Q.! Way to go Ryan! I asked our winner to share a few of his baking secrets with us so that we can better attempt to make his tasteful cake at home.

"The cake batter was a combination of cake flour, meringue, and chocolate sauce all mixed by hand so it would stand up against the weight of the cake. There were 3 types of chocolates used in the batter and the frosting (a bittersweet, a semisweet and a German sweet chocolate). I owe everything to the Zappos dev department who let me test an earlier version of this recipe on them last week. Their feedback helped me come up with the final product"

And the prize for most creative went to Amber W. for her German Chocolate Cheese Cake - my personal favorite, I'm a sucker for cheesecake!



Check out our winning Cake Above...Oh, and Ryan, you must have been a baker!